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== Given and Entire Names ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* Count D and his relatives in ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]''.
* D, the alien spy from ''[[Project A-ko]]''. However, it may be just a code name.
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* J from ''[[Heat Guy J]]''
* J from ''[[Bobobobo Bobobo]].'' You know, the one with the garlic/onion (the heroes can never decide this) for a head?
* In the Diamond/Pearl saga of the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, a villain known as Pokemon Hunter J and a one-shot filler character known as O were introduced.
* [[Gravitation]]'s K. (Although his actual name is revealed later.)
* K in ''[[Puni Puni Poemy]]''.
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=== [[Card Games]] ===
* [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=74252 This] ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card (from an official joke set) has a ''zero'' letter name.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* V from ''[[V for Vendetta]]''.
* Professor X from ''[[X-Men]]''
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=== Film ===
* G, of the movie ''Holy Man'' (played by [[Eddie Murphy]]) - the titular character, in this case.
* In ''Envy'', [[Christopher Walken]]'s hobo character calls himself "the J-Man."
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* In [[The Bourne Series (novel)|The Bourne Series]], Jason Bourne went by the military-alphabet name Delta when he was in the Medusa program in Vietnam.
* The protagonist of "The Castle" by [[Franz Kafka]] is known only as K, making this [[Older Than Television]].
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=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* Mister F from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''.
* G Callen from ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'' (his first name accidentally vanished when he was put into foster care). When they finally track it down, the building explodes before Callen can open the drawer.
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=== [[Music]] ===
* E from the band Eels, who used to also make solo albums under that name, until he decided it made his music too hard to track down. He has gone by his real name though - his autobiography ''Things The Grandchildren Should Know'' and [[Pop Star Composer|the soundtrack to the film]] ''Levity'' are both credited to Mark Oliver Everett. He initially started being called E in high school because he just [[One Steve Limit|knew too many other people named Mark]].
* In Vivian Stanshall's comedy LP ''Sir Henry at Ndidi's Kraal'', the eponymous Sir Henry Rawlinson mounts an expedition to [[Darkest Africa|Africa, the "dark incontinent"]]. He can't remember his native bearers' names, so "to their - ahem - cheery delight, I ''numbered'' the sods. The last twenty-seven I named after the letters of our alphabet. The twenty-seventh - knew you were going to ask me that! - was a question mark."
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* A from ''[[Digimon|Digimon: Digital Card Battle]]''. {{spoiler|It's a pseudonym}}.
* D in Another Code: Two Memories (a.k.a. ''[[Trace Memory]]''). {{spoiler|D turns out to have been a nickname. His real name is Daniel.}}
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* [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Mr. L]] from ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', though that's not his real name. {{spoiler|He's Luigi much to the surprise of no one.}}
* Inverted in the PC game ''N'': [[I Am Not Shazam|most people think the main character ninja's name is N]], but actually the ninja is nameless and N represents "the way of the ninja", a system of beliefs to which the ninja subscribes. These details are found on N's "Story" page.
* N from ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''. (The Japanese games actually use the English letter as his name, a rarity in a JRPG. It's short for {{spoiler|Natural, as in natural number}}, so it makes sense. {{spoiler|It's [[Wild Mass Guessing|been theorized]] that his supposed father Ghetsis has gone through thirteen other children, letters A-M, in his attempts to create the peculiar kind of idealistic [[Tyke Bomb]] he needed to take over Unova.}}
* O is the name of a minor NPC in ''[[Planescape: Torment]]''. He's not just any old O, but part of the "divine alphabet." Whatever that means, he can give you a permanent boost to your Wisdom if you ask the right questions, before vanishing.
* Dr. O from the "Old World Blues" DLC for ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. {{spoiler|Only not really - while everyone ''calls'' him O, his actual name is [[You Are Number Six]].}}
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=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* The ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' "Espionage" theme (a spoof of ''[[James Bond]]'') has characters named Ñ and Ü. Apparently turnover was so high that they ran out of ordinary letters.
* Elzandra Ayla {{spoiler|Umbria}}, AKA Alexandra Underwood of ''[[A Magical Roommate]]'', prefers to be addressed as X. Nobody's sure why. Maybe it has to do with the fact that [[The Quiet One|she rarely says a word with more than three syllables in it, and Alexandra has four.]]
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=== [[Web Original]] ===
* Coach Z, from ''[[Homestar Runner]]''. Didn't start out this way, as his name was spelled "Coach Zee" in the original book of ''Where My Hat Is At?'', presumably to prevent his name from being pronounced "Coach ''Zed''".
** Whoa. Coach Zed. That's way cooler. I'm gonna start calling him that too and maybe he won't suck so bad!
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Substitute teacher Mr. E in ''[[Recess]]''. Helps his [[Badass]] mystique that gets him to cow the rest of the class into doing what he wants (in a good way!)... Except for the resident idealist T.J. (Theodore Jasper, in case you were wondering. He's not an example of this trope, he just uses it as a better-sounding nickname. Can you blame him?) They find common ground in the end anyway.
{{quote|'''T.J.''': So, can I ask what the E stands for?
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=== [[Real Life]] ===
* The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (a.k.a. [[MI 6]]) is always codenamed "C".
** As [[Al Franken]] points out while talking about the Downing Street Memos in ''The Truth (with jokes)'', there are a number of other individuals in British government given single letter codenames. He mentions a meeting involving "C, Z, R, and a group called 'the vowels'."
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* Vanilla H from ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel]]''.
* In [[Real Life]], O is a genuine Belgian surname.
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